Ubuntu
gdm package

$PATH variable in Gnome wrong

Bug #94522 reported by Jonathan Kempa
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gdm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

My $PATH variable in Gnome is wrong in Feisty.

In a console (CTL + ALT + F1), my path variable looks fine: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

But in the GNOME terminal and other applications, my path looks like the following:

jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Thus, I can not start lots of applications and I can not connect to my wifi as network-manager has got some problems.

Didn't happen with Herd5, then I did a upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 21 19:53:42 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux jonathan-desktop 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Jonathan Kempa (jonikempa) wrote :

using kdm, this problem does not appear.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

btw., this also causes several menu items not to work (for example supertux).

also, restricted-manager crashes on startup then.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. That works fine on my feisty desktop, gdm didn't change a lot and you are the only one who opened a bug about that, that's likely to be due to some configuration on your box. What gdm session do you use? Could you attach your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and /etc/gdm/gconf.conf-custom (you can replace values first if there is data you don't want to copy on the bug)?

Changed in gdm:
importance: Undecided → Low
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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Hi!

I was at Jonathan's house yesterday and we tried around a little bit. First, he upgraded to Feisty but that issue appeard.

So, as /home was on a seperate hard disk, we wiped / and installed Feisty Herd 5.

After doing upgrades, the problem reappeard, but I can't tell you if it happens with a fresh Herd 5. I think that we'll try to boot from that live cd again and retry.

As I though it may be related to some configs in /home, I created a new user and logged in as it. But the problem still appeared there, also.

Finally, we installed kdm and the issues disappeard..

I will attach the configs as soon as I have access to that machine.

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Jonathan Kempa (jonikempa) wrote :
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Jonathan Kempa (jonikempa) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Those look like the stock configuration, letting the bug unconfirmed for now. That looks like a local configuration bug or due to an another application, you are the only one to complain about that at the moment and there is no such bug on my installation

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

When I have time, I will investigate a little bit more, but I honestly do not know where do start.

Do you have any hints where I could look?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

you can look to the scripts in /etc/X11. Does using gdm to log into a non GNOME environment set the same PATH?

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

was caused by a blank /etc/pam.d/gdm. it was my fault.

Changed in gdm:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for the update

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